Christoph Päper wrote:
> PS: As far as I know there is nothing like italics in East-Asian
> typography. Oblique can be simulated by automatic slanting. Would it be
I don't think there can be, as the typography is based on brushes rather
than pens. However, I have seen slanted text used in modern Chinese
printed material in ways similar to italics.
> acceptable for Japanese to switch display between Katakana and Hiragana
> for "font-style: italic"?
Katakana and Hiragana have disjoint Unicode code spaces and, I think,
have different uses.
>
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